Karamat Huseynov Judoka

Karamat Huseynov

Country:Azerbaijan

Born:30 August 1998 (21 years)

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Karamat Huseynov of Azerbaijan claimed a silver medal at the World Junior Championships in Zagreb in 2017. He won a silver medal at the EYOF in Tbilisi in 2015. He became European Junior champion in 2017 in Maribor. He took a bronze medal at European U23 Championships in 2017 held in Podgorica. He took a bronze medal in 2018 in Saarbrücken. He took silver at the European Cup in Orenburg in 2018. He finished fifth at the 2018 World Championships in Baku.

For most judo fans the World Championships go as they are planned to go. The category for men U60kg delivered some of the major favourites in the semi finals. The two Japanese both survived the shift and Naohisa Takato is still on track to prolong his world title. Read more

The largest weight category on day one of the World Junior Championships, with a whopping 47 judoka, saw Japan come to the fore as 19-year-old All Japan Junior Championships winner Sugimoto Taigo was the source of his country’s second world title. Sugimoto rose to the occasion in his first IJF event as he defeated 19-year-old Junior European Championships winner Karamat Huseynov (AZE) after 30 seconds of golden score. Read more

The first official moment of the World Junior Championships in Zagreb has been conducted as the draw with 590 athletes from 83 nations took place in the Hotel Panorama. From Wednesday athletes in four categories per day will battle for the world Junior titles. Read more

The junior team of Azerbaijan claimed six medals on the first day of the European Championships in Maribor. Highlights were the gold medals for Hidayat Heydarov U73kg and Karamat Huseynov U60kg. No medals yet for the home-crowd of Slovenia that saw the Dutch women take two gold medals as well. Read more